United States v. Rosen
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
447 F. Supp. 2d 538 (2006)
Rosen and Keith Weissman (defendants), lobbyists for a pro-Israel organization, were charged with conspiring to communicate national defense information after allegedly receiving classified information from Department of Defense employee Lawrence Franklin and passing it to unauthorized recipients, including media and foreign officials. To investigate, the government obtained classified surveillance orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA); Rosen and Weissman moved to have the FISA applications disclosed and to suppress the resulting evidence, arguing the FISC wrongly found them agents of a foreign power and that the government failed to follow FISA's required minimization procedures.
Whether the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act provides standards and procedures for conducting electronic surveillance that must be followed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the government.